University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
Tail of the Storm
Flying Missions in the First Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Within days of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the far reaching arm of American airpower sprang into action. The skyscapes of the North Atlantic, Europe, and the Mediterranean became laced with the contrails of great jets flowing day and night toward the Persian Gulf. From the skies, manpower...
Footprints in Stone
Fossil Traces of Coal-Age Tetrapods
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existence and detailed findings about its fossil record.
Currently 2,500 miles from the equator and more...
by Susan M. Alt, Melissa R. Baltus, Kenneth B. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America
Across North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide...
by Jesse Walter Fewkes, L. Antonio Curet
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico.
Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist...
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
*Lost City, Found Pyramid delves into the fascinating world of sensational “pseudoarchaeology,” from perennial discoveries of lost pyramids or civilizations to contemporary ghost-hunting and reality TV. It examines how nonscientific pursuit of myths and legends warps both public perceptions of...
Malignant Growth
Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful...
The Rock-Art of Eastern North America
Capturing Images and Insight
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces.
In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...
From Quarry to Cornfield
The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
From Quarry to Cornfield provides an innovative model for examining the technology of hoe production and its contribution to the agriculture of Mississippian communities.
Lithic specialist Charles Cobb examines the political economy in Mississippian communities through a case study of raw material...
by Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
The first comprehensive study of the meaning of pottery as a social activity in coastal North Carolina.
Pottery types, composed of specific sets of attributes, have long been defined for various periods and areas of the Atlantic coast, but their relationships and meanings have not been explicitly...
Our Southern Zion
A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The South Carolina low country has long been regarded--not only in popular imagination and paperback novels but also by respected scholars--as a region dominated by what earlier historians called "a cavalier spirit" and by what later historians have simply described as "a wholehearted...
Separation of Church and State
Dina de-Malkhuta Dina in Jewish Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
For the Jewish community, the end of the Middle Ages and the emergence of the modern nation-state brought the promise of equal citizenship as well as the possible loss of Jewish corporate identity. The legal maxim dina de-malkhuta dina (the law of the State is law) invoked in Talmidic times to justify...
Heightened Expectations
The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Heightened Expectations is a groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry. Drawing on medical and public health histories as well as on photography, film, music, prose, and other examples from popular culture, Aimee Medeiros...
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity
The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Baseball has long been considered America’s “national pastime,” touted variously as a healthy diversion, a symbol of national unity, and a model of democratic inclusion. But, according to Michael Butterworth, such favorable rhetoric belies baseball’s complicity in the rhetorical construction...